Joanne Bozeman, Professor Emerita & Author
The Hormonal Seasons of the Voice: So-called "reproductive" hormonal variations can influence the singing voice over the lifespan, particularly in adolescence, the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and breastfeeding, and the menopause transition. Joanne will discuss how these changes take place, the spectrum of experience that singers report, and provide guidance for singers, teachers and conductors.
"Zebras" in the Voice Studio: Singing with Hypermobility and POTS: The term medical "zebras" can refer to the invisible and often overlapping conditions of hypermobility and POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome). Both of these diagnoses are being recognized more frequently within the voice community. Joanne will cover basic information about these conditions and suggest best practices for affected singers, their teachers and conductors.
Joanne will also be available for private consultations with individuals following her presentations.
Dr. Kenneth Bozeman, Professor Emeritus & Author
Masterclass: Vocal Acoustics "À Toute Vitesse:" Ken will work with select singers in a masterclass format to illustrate and demonstrate basic acoustic principles of singing.
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BIOGRAPHY
A graduate of the University of Arizona, Joanne Bozeman has been a singing teacher for 50 years. Her teachers include Richard Miller, Eugene T. Conley, Bruce Lunkley, and Teresa Seidl. In 1993, she joined the faculty of Lawrence University’s Conservatory of Music in Wisconsin, where, until retirement in 2019, she taught singing and a number of voice-related, diction, and music education courses. Her students have gone on to select graduate schools, young artist programs, and singing and teaching careers. In addition to teaching, Joanne was an actively performing soprano, specializing in chamber music, oratorio and song repertoire. She served as voice trainer for the Lawrence Community Girl Choir program. Inspired by her long-standing interest in voice health and the relationship of hormones with voice throughout the female lifespan, Joanne co-authored Singing Through Change: Women’s Voices in Midlife, Menopause, and Beyond, released in 2020 (StudioBos). She has spoken on the subject of female voice and hormones for many organizations, including ICVT, AOTOS, BVA, NATS, PAVA, and numerous voice collectives and universities. Joanne is a co-author of a chapter on female voice and hormones in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Voice Pedagogy. With co-researcher Marita Stryker, she also presents on her secondary topic of interest, hypermobility, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome with Hypermobility and POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), and how these frequently overlapping conditions may affect singers. Joanne and her husband, Ken, are thankful to be grandparents, and enjoy traveling and interacting with the voice community all over the globe.
Kenneth Bozeman, Professor Emeritus of Music, taught at Lawrence University for 42 years where he chaired the voice department and from which he received two awards for excellence in teaching. He holds performance degrees from Baylor University and the University of Arizona and studied at the Conservatory of Music in Munich. He was awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation in 1994, is the chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Singing and was inducted into the American Academy of Teachers of Singing in 2019. His writings on acoustic voice pedagogy include the books, Practical Vocal Acoustics: Pedagogic Applications for Teachers and Singers, and Kinesthetic Voice Pedagogy 2: Motivating Acoustic Efficiency, now in a second edition. Bozeman’s students have sung with Houston Grand, Boston Lyric, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Dresden Opera, San Francisco, New York City, the Metropolitan, Chicago Lyric, and Santa Fe Opera.
Workshop hosted by SFBAC NATS. Register here.